preempting

Example Sentences

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With Sabrina Carpenter hosting, the cast couldn’t pass up the chance to revive Marcello Hernandez‘s Domingo at the top of the show, preempting the standard spot for Donald Trump‘s shenanigans.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2025

Indeed, the U.S. government’s health authorities currently provide no official guidance or support for preempting this disastrous domino effect.

From Scientific American • Oct. 3, 2023

One way it does that is by preempting state-level suits against a union for helping to organize a workplace.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2023

But don’t lump it into a trend of “grief horror,” Savage pleads, preempting comparisons to the likes of Jennifer Kent’s 2014 “The Babadook.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2023

She had nearly missed the midmorning update, and now it looks like the news will be preempting more and more programming—which means she won’t be going home anytime soon.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman